Progress in Homogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation of CO2

In recent years, due to the rising of sustainable development strategies and concerns about global warming, chemists have pay more attention to the application of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) as a resource for chemical synthesis.Thereinto, in the research of the using of CO 2 , catalytic hydrogenation of CO 2 is one of the momentous means for the utilization of CO 2 .The homogeneous catalytic reaction has the advantage of mild reaction condition, high activity and easy regulation of the catalytic system and so forth, so the homogeneous catalytic hydrogenation CO 2 becomes to be a hot topic in utilization of CO 2 resource, especially in the catalytic production of formic acid, formaldehyde, methanol and amine derivatives, it has extensive application prospects.In this paper, the recent progress in the research of homogeneously hydrogenated CO 2 catalyzed by organometallic complexes is reviewed.It included that types and structures, activity and selectivity of homogeneous catalysts for the catalytic production of formic acid, formaldehyde, mathanol and as C 1 synthons, and the advance in the reaction mechanism of homogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of CO 2 .